AUDITIONS

METEOR SHOWER

by Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin)

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Directed and designed by Chris Baldock

Stage Manager – Rhiley Winnett

Assistant Director – Steph Evans

Season: June 26-July 5, 2025

Belconnen Arts Centre

Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might not be all that they appear to be. Over the course of a crazy, starlit dinner party, the wildly unexpected occurs. The couples begin to flirt and insanity reigns. Martin, using his trademark absurdist humor, bends the fluid nature of time and reality to create a surprising and unforgettably funny new play.

PLEASE NOTE: The play is a laugh-out-loud adult-themed comedy with sexually suggestive (both straight and same-sex) scenes and language.

“…a wild and laugh-filled rocket ride” – San Diego Union Tribune

“…Mr. Martin is peerless at crafting tiny wit bombs, and always has been… It’s definitely funny!” – The New York Times

“…A very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny.” – Entertainment Weekly

“…Meteor Shower sparks with the same anarchic energy as Martin’s reckless comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” – Deadline

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Steve Martin began his career on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” (1967-1969), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music in 1969. In the mid-1970s, Mr. Martin shone as a stand-up on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Martin’s films are widely popular successes and are the kind of movies that are viewed again and again: The Jerk(1979), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Roxanne (1987), Parenthood(1989), L.A. Story (1991), Father of the Bride (1991), and Bowfinger (1999). As an author, Martin’s work includes the novel An Object of Beauty; the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile; a collection of comic pieces, Pure Drivel; a bestselling novella, Shopgirl; and his memoir, Born Standing Up. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker. Mr. Martin is an accomplished, Grammy Award-winning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer who has won three Grammys for performing and composing. He has earned numerous honors including an Academy Award, five Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, the Mark Twain Prize, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Mr. Martin and Edie Brickell’s musical Bright Star premiered at The Old Globe in summer 2015, played a limited engagement at The Kennedy Center, and received acclaim in its Broadway run at the Cort Theatre. In addition to five Tony Award nominations, Bright Star received Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Great Plays. Great Actors. Great Stories. Mockingbird Theatre is an award-winning (Canberra Critics Circle – The Laramie Project plays) Canberra-based theatre company bringing discerning audiences the best text-based 20th and 21st Century plays from around the world. Utilising the talents of Canberra’s experienced and emerging theatrical talents, Mockingbird Theatre’s mission is to move, thrill, entertain and to create theatrical magic that will touch the soul.

Rehearsals will commence early May with rehearsals Tuesday and Thursday evenings (7pm-10pm) and Sundays 5pm-9pm. 

Available Roles (ages listed are the characters’ ages):

2 Male-identifying and 2 female-identifying major roles are available. Characters’ stage ages range from 30-50.

PLEASE NOTE: This play is rated R: Adult Language, Suggestive Content, Drug & Alcohol Use.

All roles are open to actors of all races, sexes, creeds, orientations and abilities. However, acting experience is essential.

This is a profit share participation between Mockingbird, the actors and senior production members.

To receive a script please email chris@mockingbirdtheatrics.com with current CV and headshot. After you have read the play, please advise which role you wish to audition for and an audition time will be sent with audition details.

Audition bookings close APRIL 12th. 

Auditions will be at Mockingbird Theatrics at the Belconnen Arts Centre on Sunday 13th April from 10am. Please advise if you wish to audition but you cannot make that date and alternative arrangements may be may including a video submission.